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Issue: Vol. 1511 No. 1: 21 Jun. 2007
Type: Articles
Published: 2007-06-21
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1511.1.2
Page range: 17–28
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 21

Description of one new species and a key to adults of Macrogynoplax Enderlein (Plecoptera, Perlidae) from Reserva Florestal Adolpho Ducke, Amazonas, Brazil

Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Curso de pós-graduação em Entomologia Caixa Postal 478, CEP 69011-970. Amazonas, Brasil
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Curso de pós-graduação em Entomologia Caixa Postal 478, CEP 69011-970. Amazonas, Brasil National Counsel of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq)
Plecoptera Amazonas Macrogynoplax neotype Reserva Ducke taxonomy

Abstract

Three known species of Macrogynoplax Enderlein from Amazonas, Brazil are redescribed: M. delicata Ribeiro-Ferreira & Froehlich, from neotype, present designation; M. poranga Ribeiro-Ferreira & Froehlich, from neotype, present designation; M. pulchra Ribeiro-Ferreira & Froehlich from holotype and M. anae new species is described. A key to males is presented. M. marauia Froehlich is considered a junior synonym of M. delicata.

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